This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States

and around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show Bill Gates. Having warned about pandemics he is now

warning about the next grave danger climate change.

Climate change is this phenomenon that's growing so that by the end of the century it's

horrific. I mean it makes the pandemic where it now look like nothing.

He has some big ideas about how to avoid a disaster. I'll talk to him about those as well as COVID-19 and much else.

That plus the US calling out Saudi Arabia's most powerful prince for his role in the killing of an American resident.

Also the Biden administration goes on the offensive militarily with a strike against Iran-backed militias

that have been attacking American forces. We'll explore.

But first here's my take. Congress began hearings this week on the security failures that led to

the capital being invaded by an armed mob on January 6th. That's appropriate and useful.

But my fear is these kinds of inquiries almost always end up adding more security procedures,

putting up more barricades, and making American government ever more imperial, armed, and removed from its citizens.

I remember living in Washington briefly during the 1980s. It was easy to enter Congress and to

walk amidst the grand rooms and imposing statues, occasionally even bumping into senators.

Even the White House was relatively accessible as it had always been designed to be. No more.

After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1998 Capitol shooting, and of course 9-11, citizens who wish to

go to the Capitol must go through a tightly controlled tour that begins in a vast underground visitor center

where they are forced to watch a movie. Can't we watch the movie at home?

Over the same period, ugly barricades were thrown up around the White House with parts of Pennsylvania

Avenue blocked off. Since the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, even more barricades went up

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